Senior Data Quality Engineer

The Emirates Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Emirates Group is seeking a Senior Data Quality & Automation Engineer to join the Analytics Centre of Excellence. You will shape test strategies, build automated data quality checks, and support analytics solutions across Emirates Airlines and group businesses.

As part of a cross-functional team, you will work with product owners, data engineers, and architects to refine requirements and translate them into robust acceptance tests. Strong Python/Scala and SQL skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant field; Data & Analytics is a plus.
• 2+ years in data engineering with focus on quality and automation.
• Experience in analytics apps like Data Lake/Warehouse; Big Data stack and Azure cloud preferred.
• Experience identifying quality issues across complex data pipelines and defining validation rules.
• Strong testing methods cover functional, performance, security across pipelines and jobs.
• CI pipelines with automated checks to validate ETL/ELT jobs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product owners, analysts, engineers to translate requirements into tests.
• Build test strategies and plans for data quality, performance, security.
• Design and build automated tests across data pipelines with good coding practices.
• Debug complex issues and resolve blockers with minimal supervision.
• Conduct data analysis: source system analysis, data profiling, mapping.
• Assist in updating data inventories and metadata lineage following governance standards.

Skills

Data analysis

CI/CD mindset

Team player

You Code It You Own It

Self-starter

Problem solving

Communication

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Data & Analytics specialization

Tools

Python

Scala

SQL

Spark

Hadoop

Airflow

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

Kafka

Jenkins

Docker

GIT

Job description

At Emirates Group our Analytics Centre of Excellence ACoE is a centralized unit that provides data and analytics support to Emirates Group businesses This allows our businesses to make better decisions by using data and analytics to understand our customers operations and markets The ACoE is an essential part of Emirates Group s digital transformation strategy The unit is helping Emirates Group to become a more data-driven organization and to make better decisions by using data and analytics

As a Senior Data Quality amp Automation Engineer you will be a fully participating member of a cross-functional team working autonomously on technology development and problem resolution in the Enterprise Data amp Analytics space The role involves hands on contributing to quality practices along with designing and implementing data quality and automation platforms They will also provide support to technical analytics solutions and products that support Emirates Airlines and the Emirates Group businesses

In this role you will Work closely with product owners analysts software engineers and architects to understand the technical landscape and context of deliveries to refine complex functional and non-functional requirements and translate it into fit for purpose acceptance tests Work on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors and select methods to validate and automate the solution Build test strategies and test plans validating the core business problem and translating them into tests around code functionality data quality performance and security Build and support generating or mocking of test data for exploratory analysis and running tests Design and build automated tests jobs of moderate to high scope and complexity across all stages of the data pipeline while demonstrating good coding amp design practices and adhering to published coding standards and guidelines Build and enhance data quality rules and platforms for observability across the data pipeline Debug complex issues resolve blockers and follow design documents with minimal or no supervision Conduct data analysis activities such as source system analysis data modelling data dictionary collection data profiling and source-to-target mapping ensuring delivery on business needs Support in updating data inventories and registries as required to keep metadata and data lineage up-to-date following agreed Data Governance standards guidelines and principles

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.
• Specialization or electives in a Data & Analytics field (e.g. Data Warehousing, Data Science, Business Intelligence) a nice-to-have
• Experience 2+ years Data Engineering experience with focus on quality & automation
• Minimum 2+ years of testing, automation and support experience in analytics applications such as Data Lake and Data Warehouse (preferably using the Big Data stack and Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure)
• Seasoned in identifying quality issues across complex data pipelines running on big data technologies and defining rules for validating health of the data
• Experienced in a wide variety of testing methods and tools covering functional, performance, security tests across individual jobs, pipelines and end to end across enterprise.
• Well versed in building automated checks running in a CI pipeline to validate the ETL / ELT jobs are performing as expected
• Experience with batch and real-time data ingestion/integration tools and technologies handling massive quantities of data (structured and unstructured)
• Exposed to data architecture concepts such as data modelling, Big Data storage, and dimensional modelling
• Exposed to working with jobs in data pipelines and define metrics / measures to ensure correctness of the data
• Programming (Python or Scala) and SQL querying skills is required
• Exposure to Spark & airline industry experience is nice-to-have

Knowledge/Skills:

• Ability to drive quality of data assets independently
• Able to deliver solutions (and associated value) interactively
• Strong ability to conduct data analysis (e.g. source system identification, data dictionary / metadata collection, data profiling, source-to-target mapping) is preferred
• Operates with a You Code It, You Own It mindset (i.e. supports the products they build)
• Team player; able to collaborate with others to remove blockers, solve complex design problems and debug/resolve issues
• Is accountable and displays positive attitude
• Self-starter and has passion for exploring and learning new technologies, especially those in the Enterprise Data & Analytics space

Key Technologies/Tools:

• Big Data & distributed processing: Spark, Hadoop (HDFS, Hive, H-Base, Oozie), Airflow, , Apache Nifi, Azure (ADLS, DataBricks, Azure Data Factory)
• Elasticsearch, AVRO / PARQUET file formats
• Data Analysis, Modelling and Reporting: Snowflake, SQL, Data Vault 2.0, MicroStrategy, Power BI
• Cloud Technologies: Microsoft Azure and Cloudera technology stacks
• Integration and Messaging: Streaming (e.g. Spark Streaming), SnapLogic, TIBCO, Kafka
• CI/CD :GIT, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, docker, SonarQube, Gatling
• Languages: Scala, Python